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AT ANY ONE time there are 1,200 Irish people locked up in foreign jails, according to figures provided by the Department of Foreign Affairs.
However, the Department says that the supports available to those people vary.
While there are no exact figures available for where they are, the Department says that the “vast majority” are in the UK. According to the most recent UK prison population stats 746 prisoners – 7.7% of all prisoners – were Irish nationals. Last year, 45 Irish people were jailed abroad.
Officially, the Department says that it is obliged to:
The ICPO was established in 1985 and it works for Irish prisoners. It offers a comprehensive service to prisoners and to prisoner families which includes: provision of information on repatriation and deportation, assists in making referrals to post release support agencies for those returning to Ireland, a hardship fund for prisoners where access to food, water and medical treatment are very real concerns.
The ICPO also operates an extensive prison visiting programme in Britain and elsewhere.
As far as the supports the Department can provide, it says:
“In terms of supports offered in consular cases involving prisoners overseas, each individual case is considered on its own merits. Officials take into consideration the vulnerability and capacity of the Irish citizen, the legal and prison system of the country in which they are being held, the availability of assistance from other parties, the resources available to the relevant Embassy/Consulate and a number of other factors.
“There are clear limits to what the Irish Government can do in terms of consular assistance for citizens involved in criminal cases overseas. We cannot intervene directly in judicial proceedings in another country, and we cannot provide legal advice or act in any legal capacity on behalf of an individual.”
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When these scroats dont even use a bin to put their Yazoo milk drinks in. What makes you think their going to bother their ar$es putting their needles in a bin.
And how long before other scrotes fill them with their household rubbish?
When I lived in Sweden, all I ever had to do with unused or outdated prescription drugs was to hand them into any pharmacy for appropriate and safe disposal. The same applies in the other Nordic countries as well as in many other parts of Europe. It isn’t exactly rocket science, and I’m sure Irish pharmacies could do the same if they were required to as a condition of being given a licence.
As for disposing of ILLEGAL drugs, have you ever heard of anyone who wanted to hand in his stash for it to be destroyed? Get real!
They do do it
Dont understand the bins at all, like Sweden, you can already hand old and unused medications into any pharmacy or medical practice for disposal. Health ministers wasting more money…..
You can here too with prescription drugs.. It might be a different story if you tried to hand over a few wraps of heroin though.
Any chance of a few bins in Dublin City Centre to throw druggies into ?
So basically a lucky dip free drugs dispenser?
Should be very popular, like a secondhand books shelf for junkies.
No 3 “community organisations”,lol…..certain loyalist community organisations will allow you your very own drug franchise and area if you pony up 5k a week in cash to them.For the 5k you get minimum interferance from the police and protection of your franchise.from other dealers.
Same as republican communities…..
The psni has given up,why should they bother?They went to investigate a drug dealer in Larne which resulted in 4 officers getting injured in two days of rioting by fleg protestors brought on to the streets by the community organisations,the cultural parading type.
The have them here in public bathroom in oz -people are gonna use them, accept it, I’d prefer them in a metal locked up container than all over the ground!
Maybe the addicts want the drugs delivered to the their place of residence also
You didn’t even read the first line of the article, did you? The bins are for safe disposal of both legall prescription drugs and narcotics.
Can’t we just do mass internment of drug users and suppliers? Keep them all on an island?
Every drug dealer and user in this country IS on an island. Not very good at geography, are you? LOL
Pmsl Fintan…..
What a mess then?
Do you drink alcohol? Have you every been in an accident or have an operation that you needed serious pain meds?
Should’ve used a trash tag.
What’s wrong with putting unwanted prescription medications in the regular bin? They are after all safe for human consumption and rubbish goes to land fill.
They will become a target for criminals?
Donegal can be so initiative at times.
How about they sort out normal bins first and then they can get to this? I rarely see a public bin outside the city centre!
Loto machine the city’s addicts !
What nutter came up with this idea?
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